Whitgift Center

A typical Town shopping centre; A few popular high street stores (a little on the small side) mixed in with cheap ‘everything for £5′ «Fashion» stores.
I wouldn’t expect anything too exciting, most stores are small to medium sized, so you dont get as much of a choice as other places!
You have a BHS at one end and an M&S the other, a nice sized boots, Sainsburys, a couple of coffee shops, hair salons and cheap to quality fashion stores.

The Whitgift Shopping Centre is quite a good one in central Croydon, near to a few hotels like the Town Centre Croydon Premier Inn and Hampton by Hilton as well as being a short walk away from East Croydon Station.
The Whitgift Shopping Centre has a tunnel to go to on one side of the road to avoid crossing the busy road, It also has a Sainsburys inside what might not be a superstore but has a good range, even a small Gluten Free section.
The staff at the information desk seemed helpful directing me and they is lifts to get to one floor to another.
As well as Sainsbury’s, they is a Starbucks inside and a Sports Direct, They is a BHS Store and restaurant, Boots Pharmacy, Currys PC World, Card Factory and Subway to name a few so if you are visiting the shopping centre you wont be disappointed with the choice they have for food and restaurant.
This isn’t the most magnificent looking of shopping centres but with some great stores it does do it job because of this I feel 4
a very fair score to give.
UPDATE: After some careful consideration, I think I just got a little too excited to see a shopping centre like this so close to my hotel, it is only a small (ish) mall and a lot quieter to what I am used too, hence that ruins the vibe a little, and I do think this place is more deserving of 3 stars rather than the 4 I originally gave.

Right up my street! Good quality shopping. I have made some real Killings in suits because of present economic situation. Wife has enjoyed the same savings in ladies clothes. Some good eateries contained within. Recommend it.

It’s alright, with plenty of shops stocked around the building, parking is cheap (3 GBP for the whole day), plenty of good restaurants to eat at, but the toilets are plain nasty and full of suspicious individuals. It would be a good idea to be careful as we all know that Croydon does have its flaws when it comes to crime sometimes!

I have shopped in The Whitgift Centre, Croydon for many years, I used to shop there when the Woolworths was on 2 floors and the shopping centre had no roof. However recently since Centrale arrived a large amount of shops have moved out and have now been empty since. I think there are also shops such as the (I think) former Gateway computer shop and the shop next to Supercuts have both been empty for about 10 years.
Apparently for some reason they are going to extend it in the next 10 years. The problem is that Croydon has many retail units but not enough shops to go in those retail units. There are some shops in Central which have never been used in the about 6 years it has been there

Croydon is a home town of my husband. This is the reason we visit it almost every month. There are two shopping centres opposite each other on North End Street. Lots of shops are around that area. There is a card shop on Church Street as marked on the map which is the best saving for card shopping.
The Whitgift Croydon:
1. Building Service Management and the layout of shops: ⁶⁄₁₀
I got down to level one from Car Park using lift, which wasn’t a good experience for me. The room in the lift is too small. It can’t fit into more than 5 – 6 people. If with a little buggy it just doesn’t fit that comfortably.
I collected store directory from information stand on level one. It’s showing 100 shops on two floors without showing locations in the list of categories. It is not presenting sales offer or store’s information.
They placed management office and baby changing facilities on third floor. I personally think it is not making any convenient to customers who have babies.
(Management certainly haven’t delivered good support to visitors in the mall, they maybe just target their customers in the local area.)
2. Food and drinks: ⁷⁄₁₀
The eating places are located on the first floor and second floor. There are over ten choices of Café and restaurants in store directory. (e.g. BB’s Coffee and Muffins, Subway, Starbuks)
3. Value for money: ⁸⁄₁₀
Well, they have almost everything you need in your everyday live, and visitors could easily do all their shopping in one place.
Overall, The Whit gift is a good shopping centre for their local people. But they need to improve their building service management and the layout of shops.

The Whitgift Shpping centre is a great place to find all your favourite stores and some nice little boutiques. It offers a range of shopping markets from food to clothes to plants and provides something for any shoppers budget. All the stores are under a roof so no need to go outside and get wet. There are places to eat and it even has it’s own mini aqualand to have a free look at some interesting fish and amphibians.

The whitgift centre isn’t usually seen as the most luxurious shopping option for the south east. However, I find it to be a perfectly, clean, warm, shopping mall with all the major high street brands including River Island, M&S, Accessories, Faith and Body Shop. It was built in the late 1960s and has been slightly left behind by the much more recently created mall directly opposite which has a more stylish and updated feel (Zara, mango, Elle, Next). There is a vast branch of Boots and the main entrance to Alders department store as well as a Sainsbury’s. In conjunction with the other two Croydon malls, the whitgift centre makes Croydon a comprehensive if not a classy place to shop.

I have become a true fan of the Whitgift Centre since moving in the area two years ago. None of the other areas really have a big shopping centre on their doorsteps. The lighting in the shopping centre is amazing and there is plenty of space to wander around without walking around like sheep, one after the other. There are very few stores in the shopping centre still available, which is a nice change. You can get anything you want inside the shopping centre which extends to the North End and then straight into Centrale Shopping Centre.
Whiftgift Centre has three floors, the third is mainly reserved for food places but they can be found throughout anyway. They’ve got both lifts and escalators for anyone unable to take the stairs. This shopping centre is much busier than Centrale and much more welcoming.

The Whitgift Center is huge and terrifying. The first time you go there you will get lost simply due to the size, it stretches parallel to Croydon High Street for almost its entire length and there are hundreds of shops there for almost everything you’ll ever need. The only problem really is the fact that it’s so big, I went to school in Croydon every day for 5 years and by the end of it still couldn’t find my way around the Whitgift Center without a fair bit of guesswork.
Unfortunately, Friday nights there’s always police outside the McDonalds there because of violence and all that, kids tend to get a bit rowdy when the school-week’s over and they hang around Croydon High street and the Whitgift Center. Nothing really to worry about thought, Croydon’s usually busy during shopping hours and you’re very unlikely to be the victim of some youth crime.

Having just moved to South London I’m finding brilliant places in the most unlikely of areas. After many people recommending that I visit Croydon to go to the Whitgift Centre I found the most gigantic, gorgeous centre. It’s every shoppers dream whether it’s designer labels or a huge Primark, they have everything! I would recommend that people in North London venture down to Croydon to shop as many local residents believe it’s better than Oxford Street!